am I alone

Traversing Wormholes in Time

More cheesy music of mine from 1983. All of these "80s" songs were just rough ideas I was trying to jot down real quick... this one was using my Sequential Circuits Prophet 600, Guitars, and Roland TR-909 drum machine recorded into a Clarion XD5 4-Track Cassette Recorder. 

Bat Cave Demo

Bat Cave Demo // Music From The 80s

The title refers to the Lugger in Polruan (https://www.luggerpolruan.co.uk/). It was named after this inn even before the first note was played, but how the Lugger influenced this track is no longer known.

This track was begun in June 2024. The main elements for an ambient track were used to create an uplifting electronic track. But this endeavour (as well as work on the original ambient track) was stopped in July 2024. In October 2024 I worked on the track again for a short time.

This week's Disquiet Junto Project finally motivated me to put some finishing touches to the track and release it.

More on the 680th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Reverse Resolution — The Assignment: Finish something (musical) you started last year — at https://disquiet.com/0680/

The photography of The Lugger was kindly supplied by @the_robocat (more photos to be found here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/the_robocat)

The Lugger (Disquiet0680)

The track was inspired by this week's Disquiet Junto project and the sad death of David Lynch. It is the soundtrack of a walk through a railway station that becomes increasingly transcendental until it leads to a place outside the normal world. When you reach the track, you enter a mystical place...

The photography of the Glenfinnan Viaduct was kindly supplied by @the_robocat (more photos to be found here: www.flickr.com/photos/the_robocat)

More on the 681st weekly Disquiet Junto project, Drama Course — The Assignment: Record a piece of music to transform a walk or a run into something theatrical — at https://disquiet.com/0681/

The Train to Owl Cave (Disquiet0681)

Struggles Hidden From The World

soundcloud.com/velvetsomethingsuperdark/sets/cold-city-soundtrack
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Snow*Omen/Velvet Something Superdark collaboration.
Samples from: Snow*Omen: @snow_omen, recording of an improvised live performance, electric guitar: VSS. Sampling, field recording (seagulls), mixing and production: VSS. All sounds Snow*Omen and VSS. Image: Möckernbrücke Subway Station, Berlin, at night (videostill: VSS).

Cold City: Concrete

07 Apr - Terminal Solstice

The full OST of Mirrored Soul. Also contains a few outtakes. Enjoy!

mammothplant - Mirrored Soul OST - 43 Los Vigilantes

The Hunt is On

Taking the Leap

My aim with (neo)- psychedelia
Is to be free of formal song structures. To be curious, explore artistically, to evolve and grow.
To allow emotions, both dark and light, to express themselves and reveal deeper images and messages from the subconscious and from the soul. Soul inspired music btw is not always pretty and polite
I like to create atmospheres in which to hang out for a time
No barriers so I can then hybridise with other genres
I'm open to everything from Bach to Billy Idol (excepting Strauss waltzes and fairground organs... however I'm open to persuasion)
Hopefully to surprise and to disorientate. To use minimalist repeating phrases which build and give a hypnotic vibe or groove
Psychedelia teaches us that there is no rush, it's not the end that matters it's the process of getting there, that is my true goal
But I also bear in mind the imperative to be relevant 
The late 60's early 70's gave us so many great musical gifts (Hendrix, Pink Floyd, Frank Zappa etc the list is very long) and I for one am happy to keep unwrapping them
I highly value improvisation and jamming (but I have a no noodling policy). Instrumental music has a vocabulary of emotions with which I'm always mindful that there is a story encoded. 
I always record the first take as this is where magic, beyond the mind, can instantly emerge. An out of key, "mistake" is redefined as an accidental note or a borrowed chord a "surprise" and can liberate the piece from predictability. A degree of disharmony and musical tension are often necessary within a piece so that the subsequent release into harmony and joy is a highlighted sense of relief and spaciousness 
It's not so much about striving for technical perfection, it's about first and foremost serving the song.
I love that a piece can literally emerge from the tone of a single note, lightly asking "I wonder where this will take me?"
This keeps me guessing and ever curious 
In musical flow states, I am sometimes transcended into subtler realms of spirit. I've met some of my muses there... it can be very ecstatic 
Life on this planet, when observed for long enough, consists of periods of challenge leading to more settled blissful states... but one can only ever acknowledge these and keep on moving through, cycle after cycle.
Sometimes the pain and the bliss are simultaneous.
Psychedelia is here to remind us, usually with a mixture of compassion and gentle non insistent wisdom, that we are all equally valid and as important as one another.
The generation of this music doesn't require me to be in any specific state, prior to playing, in order to engage with it.

Taking the Leap

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